Tallinn

River of Desire

Nov 24, 2022 | Festivals, Spotlight, Tallinn

Jealousy, betrayal and revenge weave through Sergio Machado’s sultry, fatalistic melodrama set in the Amazon, where a woman becomes the object of desire of three passionate brothers.

Belfast

Mar 28, 2022 | Featured, Festivals, London, Red Sea, Tallinn, Toronto

ORIGINALLY REVIEWED OCT. 13, 2021 Kenneth Branagh won the Academy Award for best original screenplay for this warm, funny, visually sumptuous autobiographical drama.

Drive My Car

Jan 13, 2022 | Antalya, Buenos Aires, Busan, Cannes, Festivals, Karlovy Vary, Mar del Plat, Oscar shortlist, Rotterdam, San Sebastian, Tallinn, Thessaloniki, Toronto

Winner of the Academy Award for best international feature, Japanese director Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s ‘Drive My Car’ is the story of how love survives death in a long, measured, ultimately mesmerizing examination of the human soul.

The List of Those Who Love Me

Dec 10, 2021 | Festivals, Tallinn

Turkish director Emre Erdo?du’s compelling social drama The List of Those Who Love Me highlights hidden tensions among Istanbul’s arty celebrity set.

Alice, Through the Looking: À la recherche d’un lapin perdu

Dec 6, 2021 | Festivals, Spotlight, Tallinn

Director Adam Donen’s messy but ambitious debut feature Alice, Through the Looking brings together Lewis Carroll, Jean-Luc Godard and Monty Python in a hellish post-Brexit London.

Immersion

Dec 5, 2021 | Festivals, Spotlight, Tallinn

A Chilean family sail into stormy waters in director Nicolás Postiglione’s tense, gripping, politically charged suspense thriller Immersion.

Dear Thomas

Nov 28, 2021 | Festivals, Tallinn

Director Andreas Kleinert’s prize-winning Cold War bio-drama Dear Thomas pays compelling but indulgent tribute to East German literary outlaw Thomas Brasch.

When Pomegranates Howl

Nov 24, 2021 | Festivals, Tallinn

With sensitivity and devastating last-scene irony, filmmaker and poet Granaz Moussavi cinematically embeds the viewer in children’s lives in the heart of war-torn Kabul, in Australia’s Oscar hopeful.

Nr. 10

Nov 24, 2021 | Festivals, Tallinn

Dutch director Alex van Warmerdam takes darkly comic gloom to a new level with his audaciously weird tenth film, Nr. 10.

No Looking Back

Nov 23, 2021 | Festivals, Tallinn

Russian director Kyrill Sokolov’s high-octane action comedy No Looking Back involves three generations of women from the same dysfunctional family.

Awards Corner

Tallinn

Award for
Dear Thomas (Germany)
Director: Andreas Kleinert
Award for
Immersion (Chile, Mexico)
Director: Nicolás Postiglione
Award for
The Wedding Day (Poland, Latvia)
Director: Wojciech Smarzowski
Award for
The Wedding Day (Poland, Latvia)
Wojciech Smarzowski
Award for
The List of Those Who Love Me (Turkey)
Emre Tanyildiz
Award for
No Looking Back (Russia)
Sofia Krugova
Award for
Dear Thomas (Germany)
Albrecht Schuch
Award for
The Wait (Finland)
Esa-Pekka Salonen
Award for
Perpetuity (Hungary)
Anna Nyitrai
Award for
Other Cannibals (Germany)
Director: Francesco Sossai